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Dave O'Brien

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1912-05-31

Deathday: 1969-11-08 (57 years old)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dave O'Brien (born David Poole Fronabarger, May 31, 1912 – November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director, and writer.

O'Brien was best known to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. O'Brien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay. He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as Tex O'Brien. In 1942, O'Brien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight.

Modern audiences perhaps best O'Brien as a frantic dope addict in the 1936 low-budget exploitation film Tell Your Children (better known under its reissue title, Reefer Madness).

As a writer for The Red Skelton Show, O'Brien shared an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and shared a nomination for the same award in 1963.

O'Brien died, aged 57, of a heart attack while competing in a yachting race.

Filmography

all 196

Movies 196

Director 10

Writer 3

self 2

Self (archive footage)

Dave O'Brien

Biography

Filmography

all 196

Movies 196

Director 10

Writer 3

self 2

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006)

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Clown Alley (1966)

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

The Desperados Are in Town (1956)

The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

The Fall Guy (1955)

Just What I Needed (1955)

The Man Around the House (1955)

Film Antics (1954)

Out for Fun (1954)

Do Someone a Favor! (1954)

Tennessee Champ (1954)

Ain't It Aggravatin' (1954)

Things We Can Do Without (1953)

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Cash Stashers (1953)

Dogs 'n Ducks (1953)

T.V. of Tomorrow (1953)

I Love Children, But! (1952)

Reducing (1952)

Musiquiz (1952)

Bargain Madness (1951)

Camera Sleuth (1951)

Wrong Way Butch (1950)

A Wife's Life (1950)

Did'ja Know? (1950)

Crashing the Movies (1950)

Pest Control (1950)

Sports Oddities (1949)

We Can Dream, Can't We? (1949)

Those Good Old Days (1949)

Super Cue Men (1949)

Let's Cogitate (1948)

Ice Aces (1948)

Just Suppose (1948)

You Can't Win (1948)

I Love My Mother-In-Law But... (1948)

Bowling Tricks (1948)

Have You Ever Wondered? (1947)

Neighbor Pests (1947)

I Love My Wife BUT! (1947)

Early Sports Quiz: What's Your I.Q. No. 13 (1947)

Diamond Demon (1947)

Athletiquiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 12 (1947)

I Love My Husband, But! (1946)

Sure Cures (1946)

Treasures from Trash (1946)

Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11 (1946)

Studio Visit (1946)

Flaming Bullets (1945)

Frontier Fugitives (1945)

Three in the Saddle (1945)

Enemy of the Law (1945)

The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)

The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)

Marked for Murder (1945)

The Whispering Skull (1944)

Tahiti Nights (1944)

Safety Sleuth (1944)

Dead or Alive (1944)

Gangsters of the Frontier (1944)

Gunsmoke Mesa (1944)

Brand of the Devil (1944)

Movie Pests (1944)

Spook Town (1944)

The Pinto Bandit (1944)

Sportsman's Memories (1944)

Guns of the Law (1944)

Outlaw Roundup (1944)

Boss of Rawhide (1943)

The Return of the Rangers (1943)